Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social...

Author: Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9780691159553
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity to Literary Icon

Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity...

Author: A. Debritto
ISBN: 9781137343543
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an...  Read More >>

The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History

The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction: Journalists...

Author: D. Underwood
ISBN: 9781137353474
Format: Hardback
$145.17

In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,'...  Read More >>

The Worlds of August Strindberg

The Worlds of August Strindberg

Author: Björn Meidal ,  Bengt Wanselius
ISBN: 9789171262486
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete...

Author: Mark Twain ,  Benjamin Griffin
ISBN: 9780520272781
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

Gothic

Gothic

Author: Fred Botting (Kingston University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415831727
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies....  Read More >>

Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture

Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture

Author: Patrice A. Oppliger
ISBN: 9780786468652
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Addresses media role models in television, film, picture books, and the Internet in the realm of bullying and relational...  Read More >>

Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence

Silence and Subject in Modern Literature: Spoken Violence...

Author: U. Olsson ,  Ulf Olsson
ISBN: 9781137350985
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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""I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"": The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms

""I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary"": The...

Author: Anthony Anemone ,  Peter Scotto
ISBN: 9781618113726
Format: Paperback
$62.99

""A fascinating look into the life and mind of poet and prose miniaturist Daniil Kharms ... Anemone and Scotto offer...  Read More >>

Gothic

Gothic

Author: Fred Botting (Kingston University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415831710
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies....  Read More >>

Charles Dickens in Context

Charles Dickens in Context

Author: Sally Ledger (Birkbeck College, University of London) ,  Holly Furneaux (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781107698215
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to...  Read More >>

Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel

Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the...

Author: Jonathan H. Grossman (Associate Professor, UCLA)
ISBN: 9780199682164
Format: Paperback
$70.95

The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the...  Read More >>

Andrei Siniavskii: A Hero of His Time?

Andrei Siniavskii: A Hero of His Time?

Author: Eugenie Markesinis
ISBN: 9781618112620
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This groundbreaking critical biography of Andrei Siniavskii (1925-1997) as a writer in and of his time shows how...  Read More >>

Fame and Failure 1720–1800: The Unfulfilled Literary Life

Fame and Failure 1720–1800: The Unfulfilled Literary...

Author: Adam Rounce (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107042223
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A colourful account of less canonical and unfulfilled eighteenth-century British writers that explores ideas of...  Read More >>

American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present

American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present

Author: F. Asya ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781137340016
Format: Hardback
$145.17

These essays explore the impartial critical outlook American writers acquired through their experiences in Europe...  Read More >>

Recollections of Virginia Woolf

Recollections of Virginia Woolf

Author: Rebecca West ,  T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780720615586
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This is the first paperback edition of a classic Virginia Woolf study, essential to the understanding of perhaps...  Read More >>

10 Dias Despues del Rapto: Health Album 2

10 Dias Despues del Rapto: Health Album 2

Author: Ramon Veloz
ISBN: 9781493650897
Format: Paperback
$37.36

El anti-cristo ya acaba de formar su nuevo orden mundial, hay persecucion de cristiano por todo los lados, pero...  Read More >>

Window Fishing: The Night We Caught Beatlemania

Window Fishing: The Night We Caught Beatlemania

Author: John B Lee
ISBN: 9781927725085
Format: Paperback
$31.60

The release of Window Fishing: The night we caught Beatlemania, just in time to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary...  Read More >>

Hobbit Lessons

Hobbit Lessons

Author: Devin Brown
ISBN: 9781426776021
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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John Fowles

John Fowles

Author: James Acheson (Christchurch)
ISBN: 9780230348066
Format: Paperback
$52.95

This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The...  Read More >>

Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess

Author: Dr Alison Waller (University of Roehampton, Department, London)
ISBN: 9781137262790
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Melvin Burgess has made a powerful name for himself in the world of children's and young adult literature, emerging...  Read More >>

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author: Peter Hunt
ISBN: 9781137263995
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This lively collection of original essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the light of children's...  Read More >>

Beautiful Twentysomethings

Beautiful Twentysomethings

Author: Marek Hlasko ,  Ross Ufberg
ISBN: 9780875806976
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Offers a firsthand account of the life of Marek Hlasko, a young writer whose iconoclastic way of life became an...  Read More >>

Knight Prisoner: Thomas Malory Then and Now

Knight Prisoner: Thomas Malory Then and Now

Author: T.J. Lustig
ISBN: 9781845196059
Format: Paperback
$105.47

In 1934, these were the lines which made the Librarian of Winchester College realize that he had discovered a hitherto...  Read More >>

Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition

Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition

Author: Jane Austen ,  Patricia Meyer Spacks
ISBN: 9780674724556
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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